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| à la mode |
served with an ice cream topping, as pie or other desserts, or braised with vegetables and served in a rich brown gravy, as beef. [1/2 definitions] |
| cobbler |
a deep-dish fruit pie with a thick crust only on the top. [1/3 definitions] |
| deep-dish pie |
a pie, usu. of fruit, baked in a deep dish, often with a crust only on the top. |
| flute |
an indentation, groove, or furrow, as in pleated cloth or along the edge of a pie crust. [1/8 definitions] |
| humble pie |
formerly, a pie made from the inner parts of a hog or deer. |
| Key lime pie |
a pie with a filling made of condensed milk and lime juice. |
| mince pie |
a pie with a mincemeat filling. |
| pandowdy |
a deep-dish fruit pie with a thick crust on top, often sweetened with molasses. |
| pastry |
a dough of flour, shortening, and water that is baked and used for pie crusts and the like. [1/3 definitions] |
| pasty2 |
a small pie filled with chopped, seasoned meat, fish, or vegetables. |
| potpie |
a pie made with meat or poultry, vegetables, and sauce, topped with a single pastry crust and baked in a deep oven dish. |
| puff pastry |
a light flaky pastry that puffs when baked, made by rolling and folding the dough before baking and used for croissants, pie shells, tarts, and the like. |
| sector |
in geometry, a figure shaped like a piece of pie and determined by an arc of a circle and the two radii that intersect the endpoints of it. [1/4 definitions] |
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